A Fortune for Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.47
Format: None pages, None
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu…
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1. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- adult
2. Electric Arches
By: Eve L. Ewing
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visua… read more
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- poetry
- race
- african american
3. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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4. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- poetry
- memoir
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- 21st century
- adult
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
5. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- poetry
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- audiobook
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
6. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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- adult
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
7. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
8. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- 21st century
- adult
- audiobook
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
9. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- african american
- audiobook
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
10. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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11. Judas Goat: Poems
By: Gabrielle Bates
4.21
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more
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- poetry
12. Magical Negro
By: Morgan Parker
4.31
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnog… read more
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- race
- adult
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- african american
13. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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- race
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- african american
- audiobook
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
14. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
15. A Fortune for Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.47
Format: None pages, None
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more
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- music
- poetry
- african american literature
- race
- memoir
- adult
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- african american
- audiobook
16. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
17. You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems
By: Maya abu Al-Hayyat
4.29
Format: 85 pages, Kindle Edition
Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two dec… read more
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18. Wade in the Water: Poems
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.10
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more
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- poetry
- race
- adult
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- african american
- audiobook
"History is a ship forever setting sail."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
19. Twenty-Ninth Year
By: Hala Alyan
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
20. Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
By: Sherman Kennon
4.35
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
Whisk Of Dust is a book of poetry. It aims to uplift and inspire, as it speaks of love, peace, and … read more
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"Each moment embrace or more so cherish. As gentle the wind blows,"-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
"Just as dust of a gentle breeze, quiet ascends of fallen leaves, upward to the skies. Still, we rise."-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
"Still I chase the wind and float as a gentle breeze up among the stars then descending as a bird down amidst the trees."-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
"Things are sometimes faded but they will always become clear, where there seems nothing but bad look closer, you’re sure to find good."-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
21. Bluff: Poems
By: Danez Smith
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more
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- audiobook
